Improvement in stump-joints for carriages



F. B. MORSE.

Carriage Joint. No. 96,025. Patented Oct. 19, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 96,025, dated 0mm 19, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN STUMP-J'OINTS FOR CARRIAG IIS.

The Schedule referred to in theae Letters Patent and making part of the lame To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, F. B. Monsn, of Plantsville, in l the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Stump-Joint for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and'which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in- Figure 1, a side view;

Figure 2', an end view; and in Figures 3 and 4, the two parts detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in the article of manufacture known to the trade as stumpjoint for carriages; that is to say, the joint used for supporting carriage-tops, formed by the manufacturer so as to be extended by welding the braces thereto by the consumer.

The object of the invention is the construction of a cheap yet strong joint; and

The invention consists in forming upon each part two or more ears, in exactly the, same position upon each part; that is to say, both parts are exactly alike, the ears being in such position, that when set together, the inner ear upon one part will set into the space between the inner and outer ear of the other part.

To enableothers skilled in the alt to make and use my invention, I willlproceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the one part, B, the other part, both formed precisely alike; that is to say, with an outer car, a, and an inner ear, d, the space between the two cars being the same as the inner ear, and the inner ear distant from the side of the stump equal to the thickness of the ear a. These are formed in the usual manner of forming the common halved stump joint, that is, by means of the mills, so that when-the parts are finished they may be set together, as in fig. 2, and a;rivet or pintle passed therethrough.

This formation ,of hinge produces a very much stronger joint than when halved together, and costs no more to manufacture, inasmuch as it is done in the same space of time as the common halved joint.

Having fully described my invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' As an article of manufacture, the herein-described joint, consisting of the two stumps A and B, with their cars a and d, constructed and united in the manner herein set forth;

F. B. MORSE.

\Vitnesses I A. J. Trnm'rs, J. H. SHUMWAL 

